By LSG III
The true damage to Americans by illegal immigration is immeasurable. The deaths, violent crimes, lowered standard of living, disease, and loss of that Americans are forced to endure could never measured by monetary impact alone.
Rodney Johnson, Marc Atkinson, Lawrence Cadena, Enrique Hernandez, Victor Locklin are just a few of the many law enforcement officers that will not go home to their children, wives, and loved ones because an illegal alien killed them as they upheld the law. Law enforcement officers put their lives on the line, yet the United States Federal Government refuses to protect them with valid border security and by removing illegal work incentives.
Violent crimes by illegal aliens are tragic and all too real. One study offers the sobering statistics that 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States have an average of four victims each. The crimes include serial rapes, sexual murders, and child molestation. The damage these degenerates have wrought is the tragic reality that thousands on innocents have lived and died experiencing first hand.
The costs we can measure exceed $10 billion a year. Studies show that if amnesty is approved that number will grow in excess of $29 billion a year. Some of these current costs include:
- Massive health care debts which are never repaid and have resulted in the closure of numerous hospitals, emergency rooms, and clinics that were formerly available to the U.S. Public.
- Educational strains which insures a lower quality of delivery for those children that are legal. Schools cannot afford: Books, Materials, Sports Teams, Arts, and Shop classes and at the same time the level of education in the basics is on the decline.
- Law Enforcement costs have sky rocketed as illegal aliens fill our prisons, courts, and demand the attention of our law enforcement officers. Without dispute, crime rates have risen due to illegal aliens.
- Decreased wages and income for Americans due to work taken from them by illegal aliens. This was demonstrated perfectly in Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, and Iowa as U.S. Citizens lined up for jobs after illegal aliens were identified and either fled or were arrested. The “jobs that Americans won’t do” argument has proven to be void of reality.
To fix problem the United States Government has approved, yet failed to act on building a 700-mile fence. While over $1 Billion sit unused, the cost in lives, misery, and dollars continues for law abiding Americans. Their right to life and pursuit of happiness is trampled upon.
Fence designs based on Israeli fences in Gaza and the West Bank which have cut terrorist attacks by 95% and stop tactics such as: climbing it with a ladder, cutting through it, ramming it with a vehicle, or tunneling under it undetected are readily available. The cost would be no more than $150 a foot or $5.5 million for the already approved 700 miles, yet $1 Billion sits unused and the $10 Billion plus annual costs continues to climb.
What is our government’s real solution? To grant more than 16 million people amnesty without securing our borders. President Ronald Reagan made the amnesty mistake once without securing the borders or penalizing illegal employers and we know how that went. Before we even consider amnesty it is time to secure the border, protect our citizens, and give our law and border enforcement much needed relief.
Democrats and Republicans alike have taken the grass roots approach to flooding their Senators and Congressional Representatives phones, emails, and mailboxes with their desire to stop amnesty, secure our borders, and punish those that employ illegal aliens. The next time it will be at the ballot boxes, which truly is the only thing our “representatives” understand.
